February 2016

COMMENT: In this publication the authors compared SSU rRNA gene sequences (³ 1000 bp) with commonly used PCR primer sets and generated a weighted score based on the number of mismatches. The results showed that at least 10% of environmental...
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COMMENT: In this publication a tool for shotgun metagenomics is described: SUPER-FOCUS. It is oriented to functional profiling. The meaning of its name is SUbsystems Profile by databasE Reduction using FOCUS, because it is based in a similarity-based...
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COMMENT: This was a surprising publication for me. It includes amazing and beautiful images about the spatial organization of a natural human oral microbiome at the micron scale (using spectral imaging fluorescence in situ...
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